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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Greece, a city gripped in fear
- 0:18Speaker 1: as the body count grows one, two, eight, twelve, seventeen, eighteen,
- 0:30Speaker 1: twenty one, twenty eight thirty. Many of the dead young boys.
- 0:42Speaker 1: All I can think about right now are my children
- 0:45Speaker 1: and my son John David. What was going through the
- 0:50Speaker 1: minds of all of these parents when on that day
- 0:55Speaker 1: their son didn't come home. I'm Nancy Grace. This is
- 1:01Speaker 1: Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at
- 1:05Speaker 1: Fox Nation and Serious XM one eleven. A period of
- 1:12Speaker 1: months drag on and on no answers as to who
- 1:19Speaker 1: was kidnapping and murdering little boys and young men across
- 1:26Speaker 1: the city of Atlanta. With me an all star panel
- 1:32Speaker 1: to make sense of what we know right now. But
- 1:35Speaker 1: first of all, take a listen to this. It was
- 1:39Speaker 1: a phrase uttered by a local television anchor that haunted
- 1:42Speaker 1: parents in Atlanta's neighborhoods. It's ten o'clock. Do you know
- 1:45Speaker 1: where your children are? Twenty nine children and young adults
- 1:49Speaker 1: were killed. The carnage became known as the Atlanta Child murders.
- 1:53Speaker 1: More than two dozen were killed or missing, most of
- 1:57Speaker 1: them children and mail between the ages of nine. And
- 2:00Speaker 1: twenty eight years old. One child vanished after another never
- 2:04Speaker 1: seen alive again. Their bodies found across Metro Atlanta strangled suffocated.
- 2:10Speaker 1: The first two discovered on August seventh, nineteen seventy nine.
- 2:14Speaker 1: By August the following year, the bodies of seven more
- 2:17Speaker 1: victims were found. Two teen boys were the first victims.
- 2:20Speaker 1: Fourteen year old Edward Hope Smith was missing for seven days.
- 2:24Speaker 1: He was last seen at the Greenbriar skating rink. Alfred Evans, thirteen,
- 2:28Speaker 1: had just graduated seventh grade. He was missing for three
- 2:32Speaker 1: days after disappearing from Eastlake Meadows Housing Project. Their bodies
- 2:37Speaker 1: were found in a wooded area off Nisky Lake Road,
- 2:40Speaker 1: southwest of downtown Atlanta. The location was just two miles
- 2:44Speaker 1: from where Smith was last seen. How did it all start?
- 2:48Speaker 1: Take a listen to what went down in July July
- 2:52Speaker 1: twenty eighth to be exact. You were just sharing our
- 2:55Speaker 1: friends at crime online dot com and XIA. Now listen
- 3:00Speaker 1: to our friends at CBS. On July twenty eighth, a
- 3:04Speaker 1: woman was walking along this wooded road looking for aluminum
- 3:06Speaker 1: cans to turn in for money. When she approached this embankment.
- 3:10Speaker 1: People often dump things from passing cars. Here at the
- 3:13Speaker 1: bottom she saw a body which had also presumably been
- 3:17Speaker 1: dumped from a car the previous night. It was fourteen
- 3:20Speaker 1: year old Edward Smith. He had left home eight days
- 3:23Speaker 1: earlier to go to a skating rink. He had been
- 3:25Speaker 1: shot to death nearby laid the body of his friend,
- 3:28Speaker 1: thirteen year old Alfred Evans, He had disappeared on his
- 3:30Speaker 1: way to the movie three days earlier. Police were unable
- 3:33Speaker 1: to say how he was killed. With me and Alstar
- 3:36Speaker 1: pound to make sense of what we know right now
- 3:38Speaker 1: with the body count rising, people living in fear, not
- 3:42Speaker 1: letting their children go outside for fear the children, especially
- 3:46Speaker 1: the boys, would be snatched off the street. The district
- 3:50Speaker 1: attorney's office was in a tumult with me, high profile
- 3:56Speaker 1: lawyer joining me out of the Atlanta jurisdiction. Joseph J.
- 3:59Speaker 1: Drouet a author of the Pursuit of the Atlanta Child Killer, Facts,
- 4:07Speaker 1: Fibers and Forensics on Amazon. Now, now that's the title,
- 4:13Speaker 1: Joseph drol The Pursuit of the Atlanta Child Killer, Facts,
- 4:18Speaker 1: Fibers and Forensics. Before I go to the rest of
- 4:20Speaker 1: our All Star panel, I want to go to Joseph
- 4:23Speaker 1: Drole first. Drole. Do you remember the first time you
- 4:29Speaker 1: ever saw a dead body? Yes, I do. When was it?
- 4:34Speaker 1: It was when I was with the District Attorney's office
- 4:37Speaker 1: when I first started, and we went and watched an autopsy.
- 4:40Speaker 1: Oh the good old days at the more watching autopsies,
- 4:44Speaker 1: the good old days watching out auntapsy and seeing Saniel
- 4:47Speaker 1: good may get through. It's one thing for you or
- 4:50Speaker 1: I to see a dead body, because we're used to
- 4:53Speaker 1: it now. I remember the first time I saw a
- 4:55Speaker 1: dead body in my official capacity as an assistant DA
- 5:00Speaker 1: along with you, and I will never forget it as
- 5:04Speaker 1: long as I live. But for people in Atlanta to
- 5:09Speaker 1: just look over and see a little boy that goes
- 5:14Speaker 1: missing from a skating rink and there you look down
- 5:17Speaker 1: and you see a dead body. That's a shock to
- 5:23Speaker 1: a civilian. It was a shock, I think, Nancy, to
- 5:26Speaker 1: everyone that continued unabated for a long time, to the
- 5:32Speaker 1: point that it became a frightening and terrifying I think
- 5:36Speaker 1: for everybody in the Atlanta metropolitan area. And then somehow,
- 5:39Speaker 1: Joseph J. Drole, you ended up as one of the
- 5:44Speaker 1: five very brave lawyers to take this on, joining me
- 5:49Speaker 1: a longtime friend and colleague, former Deputy Chief of Police
- 5:54Speaker 1: in the APD, Lou Archangely, Lou, it's great to hear
- 5:59Speaker 1: your voice again. I know you recall the fear and
- 6:03Speaker 1: the terror under which everybody was living in Atlanta. Describe
- 6:09Speaker 1: it for our listeners that were not there when it
- 6:12Speaker 1: all started. Oh, it was. It was horrible because of
- 6:16Speaker 1: the uncertainty. At one point there were five In November
- 6:20Speaker 1: of that year, there were five children missing at the
- 6:23Speaker 1: same time, all of them between ten and fourteen years old,
- 6:27Speaker 1: you know, And of course the real tragedy is one
- 6:30Speaker 1: of these children, Darren Glass, has never been found. His
- 6:34Speaker 1: body is still missing. You know, I can't even imagine that,
- 6:37Speaker 1: Lou Archangelo. Every day, every night on the news, you
- 6:41Speaker 1: see another child missing. You said five were between did
- 6:46Speaker 1: you say nine and fourteen? That was at one point
- 6:49Speaker 1: there were five children missing at the same time. But
- 6:54Speaker 1: for months there was four missing, three missing, and then
- 6:57Speaker 1: ultimately the last wanted to be found was Nathaniel Kat
- 7:01Speaker 1: was an adult. He was jumped in the river because
- 7:05Speaker 1: the perpetrator evolved evolved. Yeah, and that's very unusual, you know,
- 7:12Speaker 1: to doctor Todd m Bar pathologists joining us. He testified
- 7:17Speaker 1: in the Shawn great serial killer case. Doctor Barr, thank
- 7:21Speaker 1: you for being with us. People believe that serial killers
- 7:24Speaker 1: never change their m O, their modus operandi, their method
- 7:27Speaker 1: of operation. So when you see some little boys strangle
- 7:32Speaker 1: Dad and then another victim ends up in the water
- 7:35Speaker 1: the Chattahoochee, to be exact, many people go, oh, that's
- 7:39Speaker 1: not the same killer because there's a different m That's
- 7:41Speaker 1: not true, doctor Barr. Yeah, no, that's that's absolutely not true.
- 7:47Speaker 1: I've worked on a couple of serial killer cases, and
- 7:51Speaker 1: you know, I think the term evolution is an appropriate term.
- 7:56Speaker 1: I've seen them go from you know, strangulation and they
- 8:01Speaker 1: keep the same modus operandi to uh, you know, uh
- 8:07Speaker 1: strangulation with with the evolution to burning them in a car,
- 8:10Speaker 1: that type of thing. So, uh yeah, you can't just
- 8:13Speaker 1: jump to conclusions if it's not the exact same motive operation. Yeah,
- 8:16Speaker 1: perfect example, Joseph J. Drala. We had a then lawyer
- 8:23Speaker 1: in our office, Henry Newkirk, that had been a cop
- 8:26Speaker 1: in Florida during the Kyo killings. Remember Ted Bundy. Ted
- 8:31Speaker 1: BUNDY'SMO changed drastically. He went from picking people up at
- 8:36Speaker 1: the beach or in his Volkswagen to clubbing them dead
- 8:39Speaker 1: in their sorority house. So that's a perfect example of
- 8:42Speaker 1: how m's method of operation can change for serial killers, right, Nancy,
- 8:47Speaker 1: I think there's a Joseph gla. I think also the
- 8:51Speaker 1: profile is that the FBI said that the serial killers
- 8:55Speaker 1: do they change based on the circumstances. And then this case,
- 9:00Speaker 1: of course, the changes including dropping bodies in the river,
- 9:05Speaker 1: were because evidence was being found the fibers that could
- 9:09Speaker 1: identify the killer, and suddenly bodies started showing up in
- 9:14Speaker 1: the river without the clothes on. Wow, Joseph, when you
- 9:17Speaker 1: say that again one more time about how the MO
- 9:20Speaker 1: change after it got out about the fibers. Right, The
- 9:23Speaker 1: fibers started being noticed, and by the early spring of
- 9:27Speaker 1: the second year, the Georgia Barreau of investigation knew what
- 9:31Speaker 1: they were looking for. They were looking for a location
- 9:36Speaker 1: that had a green carpet that had some sort of
- 9:40Speaker 1: violet acetate fiber on some item, and it had a dog,
- 9:47Speaker 1: probably a German shepherd that got out into the newspapers.
- 9:51Speaker 1: This was in February and from then forward most of
- 9:55Speaker 1: the victims ended up in the river. Jimmy ray Payne
- 9:59Speaker 1: was wearing only his shorts red cotton shorts. Nathaniel Cat
- 10:04Speaker 1: was naked. Guys the body count rises take a listen
- 10:09Speaker 1: to our friends at crime Online and CBS. Two more
- 10:12Speaker 1: victims would be found that same year. Nine year old
- 10:15Speaker 1: use Of Bell's body is discovered in an abandoned elementary school.
- 10:20Speaker 1: His body had been stuffed in a crawl space. Bell
- 10:23Speaker 1: was last seen getting into a car on October twenty first.
- 10:27Speaker 1: Not quite a month later, the body of fourteen year
- 10:29Speaker 1: old Milton Harvey was found discarded on a road in
- 10:33Speaker 1: Fulton County. Harvey had actually gone missing before Bell. He
- 10:37Speaker 1: was last seen on his bike September fourth, but his
- 10:40Speaker 1: body wasn't discovered until November. In November, two more bodies
- 10:45Speaker 1: were found. Fourteen year old Milton Harvey was found on
- 10:48Speaker 1: the fifth Well. He's unable to say how he died,
- 10:50Speaker 1: and three days later, nine year old Yusef Bell. He
- 10:53Speaker 1: had been strangled. Nineteen eighty came and children continue to
- 10:57Speaker 1: disappear and die. All were poor. All disappeared from shopping
- 11:01Speaker 1: centers which they frequented in hopes of picking up some
- 11:03Speaker 1: change by helping people with their bags. Not all, but
- 11:07Speaker 1: most were street kids from single parents are broken homes.
- 11:10Speaker 1: All but two were boys. Ages range from seven to sixteen.
- 11:27Speaker 1: Time stories with Nancy Grace. I want to go to
- 11:31Speaker 1: Verne Smith, a special guest joining us, formerly Newsweek Atlanta
- 11:36Speaker 1: bureau chief and national correspondent, author of The Jones Men. Verne,
- 11:41Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. My pleasure the fact
- 11:45Speaker 1: that the children were taken in various ways. Some were
- 11:50Speaker 1: riding their bikes, others were on the street, and that
- 11:53Speaker 1: they were found in so many different places. One stuffed
- 11:57Speaker 1: in a crawl space in a band and in elementary school,
- 12:02Speaker 1: others in the water and the Chattahoochee. Others are tossed
- 12:07Speaker 1: off by a road. That makes it even more difficult.
- 12:11Speaker 1: What do you recall? You know, the thing that lingers
- 12:17Speaker 1: for me. You know, something that's been mentioned earlier is
- 12:22Speaker 1: the what it felt like to be in a situation
- 12:29Speaker 1: where there is an unknown terror of literally stalking the community,
- 12:38Speaker 1: and so that the sense of just panic and regular
- 12:47Speaker 1: citizens not trusting people that previously they had not thought
- 12:52Speaker 1: anything negative about it, just kind of had this kind
- 12:56Speaker 1: of paralyzing fear of the unknown, which which I think
- 13:02Speaker 1: is just something that you have to kind of experience
- 13:07Speaker 1: to understand what that was like. You know, Joseph's drew away.
- 13:12Speaker 1: I wouldn't even let my children out the door with
- 13:15Speaker 1: this going on, That's true, and most people kept their
- 13:19Speaker 1: children home. And that's why I think the ages of
- 13:22Speaker 1: the victims started going up because it was more and
- 13:25Speaker 1: more difficult that and a curview that was imposed made
- 13:29Speaker 1: it very, very difficult to find the younger children. So
- 13:34Speaker 1: the ages of the victims started climbing as the cases
- 13:38Speaker 1: went on and they increased in frequency. What do you
- 13:41Speaker 1: recall about it, Former Deputy Chief Police APD. Lou Archangel, Well,
- 13:45Speaker 1: the terror extended far beyond Atlanta. I mean, people that
- 13:49Speaker 1: I knew in Alabama were concerned and we're bringing their
- 13:52Speaker 1: children in. But even though there was never any evidence
- 13:55Speaker 1: that the killings spread beyond metro Atlanta, but even I
- 14:00Speaker 1: mean Paris, France had things in the newspaper, had articles
- 14:04Speaker 1: in the newspaper about missing children. Children have a special
- 14:08Speaker 1: place in our heart, and when they're victimized anywhere, it
- 14:12Speaker 1: strikes fear everywhere. I'm just thinking back, Lou, about the
- 14:16Speaker 1: witness that looks over and sees a dead little boy. Oh,
- 14:23Speaker 1: I actually saw one of those victims in the morgue,
- 14:26Speaker 1: and what struck me was. It was so little and
- 14:30Speaker 1: so skinny. I mean it it was hard to watch.
- 14:33Speaker 1: Even as a homicide detective. It was hard to see
- 14:36Speaker 1: the body of a young child. What was going on
- 14:40Speaker 1: amongst it Atlanta homicide during all of this, well, at
- 14:45Speaker 1: first they didn't recognize the pattern because everything was changing.
- 14:48Speaker 1: We had victims that were shot, stabbed, undetermined, asphyxiated, and
- 14:54Speaker 1: so there was confusion at the start of the case.
- 14:57Speaker 1: But ultimately they figured out the pattern that was similar
- 15:01Speaker 1: was the age of the victims and it was all
- 15:05Speaker 1: children up for the first year of this all children
- 15:09Speaker 1: take Listen to our friends at CBS. They have died
- 15:12Speaker 1: in many ways, shot, staff, ludgeon, but most all of
- 15:16Speaker 1: the recent ones have been strangled or asphyxiated. In some
- 15:19Speaker 1: cases the bodies were laid out in full view on
- 15:22Speaker 1: their backs with arms and legs extended. Others have been
- 15:25Speaker 1: thrown down an embankment, into a river under a building.
- 15:28Speaker 1: There are things that suggest drugs, sexual deviation, or cult ritual.
- 15:32Speaker 1: There are many theories, but nobody is in jail. The
- 15:36Speaker 1: tension and the terror mounting throughout the city of Atlanta,
- 15:41Speaker 1: and beyond what you were hearing in the background, there
- 15:44Speaker 1: was funeral footage of one of these little boys, and
- 15:47Speaker 1: I keep thinking about what former Deputy Chief lou archangel
- 15:52Speaker 1: I just said seeing the little boy's body, how tiny
- 15:56Speaker 1: and skinny he was. To doctor Jorry Krasen, joining US
- 16:02Speaker 1: psychologist faculty Saint Leo University, an author of operations, Doctor
- 16:10Speaker 1: Jory Crawsen, thank you for being with us. Who in
- 16:12Speaker 1: the world would stab a little boy or shoot a
- 16:19Speaker 1: seven eight nine year old little boy? Well, you know,
- 16:23Speaker 1: I always look at behavior, and we heard the term evolved.
- 16:28Speaker 1: What I really see in research shows it's a maturation. Okay.
- 16:34Speaker 1: It starts out like you look at where the children
- 16:38Speaker 1: were taken from, and that's kind of a predatory hunting style. Okay,
- 16:46Speaker 1: there's no force, you know, it's not like it's a
- 16:48Speaker 1: blitz attack. There's got to be some means of an
- 16:51Speaker 1: interaction and maybe even get the victim to willingly come
- 16:55Speaker 1: with you to a certain point before you initiate the
- 17:00Speaker 1: process of killing them. To Joseph J. Droli, former prosecutor
- 17:04Speaker 1: and author of a brand new book, The Pursuit of
- 17:08Speaker 1: the Atlanta Child Killer, Facts, Fibers and Forensics. It's an
- 17:12Speaker 1: incredible work. Joseph Drole it's on Amazon right now, Joseph.
- 17:19Speaker 1: Were the boys sex assaulted before they were murdered? No,
- 17:23Speaker 1: there is no evidence of that. Of the research certainly
- 17:26Speaker 1: a sexual component. Take Lost Our Friends at NBC. Aaron
- 17:30Speaker 1: Jackson Junior was among the youngest, only nine years old.
- 17:35Speaker 1: Luby Jeter was fourteen, Timothy Hill thirteen, Patrick Valtazar eleven.
- 17:41Speaker 1: For almost two years, the bodies have kept coming out
- 17:43Speaker 1: of Atlanta's rivers and woods, and week after week police
- 17:47Speaker 1: speak of sorrow but not a solution. At Police Task
- 17:50Speaker 1: Force headquarters, there are twenty seven faces on the wall,
- 17:54Speaker 1: twenty six murdered, one missing the killer. There was a
- 17:57Speaker 1: handful of sketches. No one the same wasn't certain to
- 18:00Speaker 1: be the person police want. Almost a year after the
- 18:03Speaker 1: task force was set up, police can't answer food before why.
- 18:07Speaker 1: They don't know how or where, or even how many
- 18:10Speaker 1: of the victims may have been killed by the same person.
- 18:13Speaker 1: One investigator says, even if the killer walked in the
- 18:16Speaker 1: door and confessed, there is not enough evidence now to
- 18:19Speaker 1: convict him. Lou Arc Angeuly, former Deputy Chief of Police APD,
- 18:26Speaker 1: what at that time of the killer walked in and confessed,
- 18:29Speaker 1: You guys didn't have enough to convict him. Oh, that's
- 18:32Speaker 1: not true at all. That was a perception in the
- 18:35Speaker 1: public and that was certainly reported. But Larry Peterson at
- 18:39Speaker 1: the crime lab and the Fulton County Medical examiners and
- 18:42Speaker 1: others had found significant evidence evidence like what they had
- 18:47Speaker 1: dog hair, They had fibers. They had the unique whelming
- 18:50Speaker 1: Trilobal carpet fiber that was very unique that was shown
- 18:55Speaker 1: up on it eventually showed up on twenty of the victims.
- 19:00Speaker 1: Carpet fiber. Yes, hold on, I'm going to circle back
- 19:03Speaker 1: to Joseph Droul on that speaking of fiber, listen to NBC.
- 19:07Speaker 1: The killer seems to taunt police and read press clippings
- 19:10Speaker 1: I feel well publicized but feudal search along the road
- 19:13Speaker 1: in an outlying county. The next child strangled with a
- 19:16Speaker 1: rope was dumped there, and when a suburban police official
- 19:20Speaker 1: criticized Atlanta's investigation, a child choked to death was left
- 19:24Speaker 1: just inside that official's county line. After a press report
- 19:28Speaker 1: that police had found fibers on some of the bodies,
- 19:31Speaker 1: Six of the last seven victims have been dropped into rivers,
- 19:34Speaker 1: all stripped to their undershorts or less, possibly to wash
- 19:38Speaker 1: away evidence. Okay, Joseph Droule, the fiber is what linking
- 19:44Speaker 1: all of these boy victims together. Nancy. It is significant
- 19:48Speaker 1: that the Larry Peterson went to a number of the victims'
- 19:52Speaker 1: homes and paint fibers and did exclusionary evidence. You can't.
- 19:59Speaker 1: They never ooomed anything. They wanted to know the source
- 20:03Speaker 1: of the fibers, and they had to make sure that
- 20:05Speaker 1: these fibers weren't in a common part of the victims environment,
- 20:09Speaker 1: that these fibers all came from the same environment as
- 20:13Speaker 1: the perpetrator. You know, lou archangel He just says something
- 20:16Speaker 1: so important because, as you will remember, Joseph Drola, when
- 20:21Speaker 1: I tried cases, I would not only try to put
- 20:24Speaker 1: together my case, but to anticipate what the other side
- 20:29Speaker 1: was going to say and destroy it before they could
- 20:32Speaker 1: even say it. And that's exactly what you're saying, Archangelly
- 20:38Speaker 1: that once this fiber connection, these very unique fibers were
- 20:43Speaker 1: found on multiple victims, not all, but many of them.
- 20:48Speaker 1: How many, Joseph had the same fibers on them, Well,
- 20:51Speaker 1: fifteen had the Wellman fiber, twenty one had the vialid ascetate,
- 20:56Speaker 1: and eighteen had the dog hairs. But the beauty of
- 20:59Speaker 1: this is grow outlines so well in the book. It's
- 21:03Speaker 1: crystal clear how the fibers are tied together, how the
- 21:06Speaker 1: crime lab collected them. How do you do that, doctor,
- 21:10Speaker 1: bar How do you get fibers off a body? Yeah,
- 21:15Speaker 1: I mean that you can't see them. They're visible to
- 21:18Speaker 1: the naked eye, right, And we have these stereotactical microscopes
- 21:23Speaker 1: that we look at the bodies with if we're looking
- 21:25Speaker 1: for certain types of trace evidence that you can actually
- 21:29Speaker 1: zoom in and take a very close up look with
- 21:33Speaker 1: these these high powerful microscopes, and you can detect these
- 21:37Speaker 1: fibers and then collect them and preserve them. The fibers
- 21:41Speaker 1: in this case, Nancy, were obvious enough that Larry Peterson,
- 21:46Speaker 1: as he went to scenes, he would see them in
- 21:48Speaker 1: the hair and on the clothing of the victims and
- 21:53Speaker 1: pull them off and place them on slides to take
- 21:56Speaker 1: back to the lab. So they and many of them,
- 22:00Speaker 1: number of fibers you know, that were it was obvious
- 22:03Speaker 1: that wherever they were immediately prior to death, you know,
- 22:07Speaker 1: this was the source of the fibers on them, their
- 22:10Speaker 1: carpet fibers. You said, the violent fibers and the dog
- 22:14Speaker 1: here showing up one on twenty one victims one on
- 22:20Speaker 1: eighteen victims can't be ignored it. As lou Archangel points out,
- 22:25Speaker 1: investigators would then go to the victims family home, take
- 22:30Speaker 1: fibers from their carpet, around their home, bedspreads, and so
- 22:34Speaker 1: forth to make sure these fibers weren't from the home
- 22:37Speaker 1: to rule that out. Verne Smith joining US former Newsweek
- 22:40Speaker 1: Atlanta bureau chief and national correspondent, When did you first
- 22:45Speaker 1: find out? Do you remember finding out the coincidence and
- 22:49Speaker 1: of course there is no coincidence in criminal law that
- 22:52Speaker 1: these same fibers were on multiple victims. Well, you know,
- 22:57Speaker 1: the local newspaper for the the Ajac, the Land Journal Constitution,
- 23:03Speaker 1: first broke that story. But UM, some of the forensic
- 23:11Speaker 1: um investigators privately we were saying that they were finding
- 23:20Speaker 1: links in the later Barty body. So UM for much
- 23:28Speaker 1: of of of seventy nine and eighty, uh, the official
- 23:33Speaker 1: police word was that, UM, they didn't know whether they
- 23:36Speaker 1: were all, whether we were, whether we were looking for
- 23:40Speaker 1: multiple killers or single killer. UM. And so for for
- 23:46Speaker 1: a while we were under that assumption that they weren't connected.
- 23:53Speaker 1: But that was really a stunning moment when you know
- 23:57Speaker 1: it was revealed that there was in fact an and
- 24:00Speaker 1: you know another thing about the fibers based on what
- 24:03Speaker 1: Verne Smith just says, doctor Jory, we hear that as
- 24:07Speaker 1: soon as it comes out, as it's led out, which
- 24:10Speaker 1: I wish it hattened men that fibers were involved, suddenly
- 24:14Speaker 1: the body start turning up naked. So this is a
- 24:18Speaker 1: very cunning killer. Yeah, that's part of that maturation and
- 24:22Speaker 1: changing of operation. You know, he's learning as he's I
- 24:27Speaker 1: guess progressing is the word that I would use, But
- 24:30Speaker 1: that's the maturation process and serial killers. Take listen now,
- 24:34Speaker 1: a big break in the case. Take us in our
- 24:36Speaker 1: friends at truth. The surveillance of Atlanta's bridges pays off
- 24:40Speaker 1: a policeman. Here is what could be a body hitting
- 24:43Speaker 1: the water. According to the record in the case, three
- 24:47Speaker 1: o'clock am in the morning, Robert Campbell, who was a
- 24:50Speaker 1: young police recruit under the bridge, her displash and then
- 24:57Speaker 1: so lights come on on a vehicle, and so the
- 25:00Speaker 1: vehicle slowly began to move in a southerly direction across
- 25:04Speaker 1: the bridge. Wayne Williams admits he was on the bridge
- 25:08Speaker 1: that night, but he says he did not stop and
- 25:11Speaker 1: did not throw anything into the river. When the police
- 25:14Speaker 1: followed and stop him near the bridge, Williams cooperates fully.
- 25:19Speaker 1: They questioned him some more, searched the car, and then
- 25:22Speaker 1: they let him go. Three days later, on May twenty fourth,
- 25:25Speaker 1: the body of Nathaniel Cater was found less than a
- 25:28Speaker 1: mile down stream from the Jackson Parplay Bridge. The oldest
- 25:31Speaker 1: victim yet twenty seventh was found in the Chattahoochee River.
- 25:35Speaker 1: With this discovery, the authorities decide that Wayne Williams is
- 25:39Speaker 1: the prime suspect. You know, help me out here, Joseph
- 25:42Speaker 1: Drew Lay. He has just come out with a book
- 25:45Speaker 1: who actually worked this case? A landmark case when the
- 25:49Speaker 1: first times fiber evidence of this magnitude had been used
- 25:55Speaker 1: in court. Fiber evidence of this ilk Joseph. So you've
- 26:01Speaker 1: got Wayne Williams and meetings on the bridge the night
- 26:06Speaker 1: a victim is thrown over the side of the bridge,
- 26:09Speaker 1: a dead victim. Luckily, somebody, either you guys at the
- 26:14Speaker 1: DA's office or you guys lew Archangel at APD, had
- 26:18Speaker 1: the brilliant idea to start surveiling bridges. It paid off.
- 26:23Speaker 1: This cop actually hears the splash he's sitting there in
- 26:28Speaker 1: the dark. He hears a splash and then lights turn
- 26:32Speaker 1: on and there he goes a car and the cop
- 26:35Speaker 1: sees it's Wayne Williams. I mean he sees the car,
- 26:39Speaker 1: doesn't he. Joseph and he didn't see the car. He
- 26:42Speaker 1: saw the lights and her radio. Freddy Jacobs, who was
- 26:45Speaker 1: at the end of the bridge and the bushes. Freddy
- 26:47Speaker 1: leaned out and said, there's a car. It's coming from
- 26:50Speaker 1: a stop position right up against the rail and has
- 26:54Speaker 1: coming toward me. He watched that car then come toward
- 26:57Speaker 1: him and make a U turn in a gravel parking
- 27:01Speaker 1: lot at the end of the bridge, where he was
- 27:04Speaker 1: seen there by Officer Holden, who was in a catch
- 27:08Speaker 1: car and holding pulls in behind him as he heads
- 27:12Speaker 1: back north over the bridge, so he backtracked. He dropped
- 27:17Speaker 1: the body, goes to the end of the bridge, turns
- 27:20Speaker 1: around and heads back the other way. Nancy, What's significant
- 27:24Speaker 1: about the bridge was we all thought it was a mistake.
- 27:27Speaker 1: When doctor Howard mentioned that he had fibers linking several
- 27:31Speaker 1: of the victims. We thought, oh my god, why would
- 27:34Speaker 1: he release that. Well, as it turned out, it was
- 27:37Speaker 1: that release that compelled Wayne Williams to dump Aaron Jackson
- 27:42Speaker 1: under a bridge. Patrick Baltazar dumped under a bridge, but
- 27:45Speaker 1: those two didn't even hit the water, they just landed
- 27:49Speaker 1: on ground. Well, then he of course matured. As the
- 27:52Speaker 1: doctor said, Curtis Walker was found in South River Jojo
- 27:56Speaker 1: Bell in the South River. Doctor Howard, by leasing that
- 28:00Speaker 1: fiber link compelled the perpetrator, Wayne Williams to start using bridges.
- 28:07Speaker 1: And then the FBI came up with the idea of
- 28:10Speaker 1: investing a huge amount of manpower to put four cups
- 28:13Speaker 1: on every bridge along the Chattahoochee and South rivers. And
- 28:18Speaker 1: on the very last day of the surveillance is when
- 28:21Speaker 1: Wayne Williams, because he was now using bridges, he was
- 28:24Speaker 1: more concentrated. We could stake it out and that's what
- 28:27Speaker 1: led to his arrest, to his contact with police on
- 28:31Speaker 1: the bridge. For those of you that worked intimately on
- 28:35Speaker 1: the case, lou Archangel, Joseph dro La Verne Smith who
- 28:38Speaker 1: covered it, what was being done to the little boys,
- 28:44Speaker 1: if they were not being sex assaulted, what was happening,
- 28:48Speaker 1: Joseph Drola, They were being mostly strangled, and I think
- 28:54Speaker 1: you know there was one one victim that got away
- 28:58Speaker 1: a young man who was up by Wayne Williams in
- 29:01Speaker 1: the middle of the night breaking into newspaper boxes to
- 29:04Speaker 1: steal the change. And Williams took this young man, drove
- 29:10Speaker 1: him around, asked him various questions, then asked him if
- 29:13Speaker 1: he wanted to make some money, asked him if he
- 29:16Speaker 1: had money, where he still rent touched his penis, and
- 29:20Speaker 1: then william said, I need to get something out of
- 29:23Speaker 1: the back of the car, and he went got out
- 29:26Speaker 1: of the car, and this young man got the heck
- 29:29Speaker 1: out of there and ran and was able to testify
- 29:33Speaker 1: a trial about that. Williams targeted these people. They were
- 29:38Speaker 1: all vulnerable young people out on the street, many of them,
- 29:42Speaker 1: and he told many many people that these people shouldn't
- 29:47Speaker 1: be on the streets. So I guess he thought he
- 29:50Speaker 1: was doing the police a favor by getting kids off
- 29:53Speaker 1: the street by killing them. That he expressed sentiments something
- 29:57Speaker 1: along those lines. There were four or five I have
- 30:00Speaker 1: witnesses at trials have testified about that that he said
- 30:05Speaker 1: exactly that kind of thing that he would then, you know,
- 30:10Speaker 1: would then mostly strangle these young men and then disposed
- 30:15Speaker 1: of their bodies. They never were found where where they
- 30:18Speaker 1: were killed. They were placed different places along roadsides in
- 30:23Speaker 1: certain positions. Uh. Some laid out very very carefully. Some
- 30:27Speaker 1: had ritualistic little stab wounds on them. A number of them,
- 30:33Speaker 1: in addition to dying of asphyxia, had been struck in
- 30:36Speaker 1: the head, so he may have subdued them at some
- 30:39Speaker 1: point prior to, uh to killing them by by asphyxia.
- 30:59Speaker 1: Fun stories with Nancy Grace. I want to talk about
- 31:03Speaker 1: Lane Williams and I want to talk about this fiber evidence.
- 31:06Speaker 1: Joseph Drewe. It's all laid out in your brand new book,
- 31:09Speaker 1: A Blockbuster Hit, The Pursuit of the Atlanta Child Killer Facts,
- 31:14Speaker 1: Fibers and Forensics. It's on Amazon right now. Joseph, question,
- 31:18Speaker 1: after all the fibers that were detected on the bodies
- 31:23Speaker 1: and on their clothing when there was clothing on them,
- 31:26Speaker 1: to where did the fibers relate? I mean, where did
- 31:30Speaker 1: they connect, Where did they from? Where did they come? Well,
- 31:33Speaker 1: the Carbet fiber was wald wall carbet in the William's home.
- 31:40Speaker 1: When the police and Larry Peterson, the prime lad of
- 31:43Speaker 1: people went with the surge warrant on June third, they
- 31:48Speaker 1: go to the home and they find a home that
- 31:50Speaker 1: is wall to wall in this green fiber. English olive
- 31:54Speaker 1: was the color of green English? What English olive? So
- 31:58Speaker 1: you still remember English? Yes, absolutely, And it's this unusual
- 32:03Speaker 1: trilobal fiber with the short one short leg and two
- 32:06Speaker 1: long legs. They go in way William's bedroom and there
- 32:10Speaker 1: is a violet ascetate bedspread which is interwoven with green
- 32:15Speaker 1: cotton fiber, and of course that's being found on the victims.
- 32:19Speaker 1: They look in the backyard and there's a German shepherd dog.
- 32:24Speaker 1: So they have found the source of the fibers that
- 32:28Speaker 1: they are finding on so many of the victims. Joseph,
- 32:32Speaker 1: how do you believe the fibers got onto the victims?
- 32:34Speaker 1: Did he actually bring them to his home? I don't
- 32:37Speaker 1: think so. He could have, but it is more likely that,
- 32:40Speaker 1: like the witnesses that we had, that he lured them
- 32:43Speaker 1: into his car and the car as he would track
- 32:46Speaker 1: things from the house into the car, and his family,
- 32:50Speaker 1: his mother and father would track everything in the house,
- 32:53Speaker 1: would track into the car. So what the crime lab
- 32:58Speaker 1: people discovered was on the floors of the car. It
- 33:03Speaker 1: was if you swept up what was in there, you
- 33:06Speaker 1: would find fibers from all the different things in the
- 33:09Speaker 1: house that would yield fibers, so bathmats and rugs and
- 33:15Speaker 1: carpets and blankets, all of that would be found in
- 33:19Speaker 1: the cars, so they didn't have to actually be in
- 33:21Speaker 1: the house and most probably they weren't, Nathew. This is
- 33:24Speaker 1: this is the theory of transfer that your doctor guests
- 33:27Speaker 1: can refer to. Every time there's an interaction physical interaction,
- 33:32Speaker 1: something's left and something's taken. And in this case, when
- 33:36Speaker 1: Wayne Williams was smothering these children, and there were over
- 33:39Speaker 1: six hundred fibers introduced to trial, nine different types, and
- 33:44Speaker 1: ultimately they even found human hairs on the body of
- 33:48Speaker 1: Patrick Baltazar that were linked by BNA to Wayne Williams.
- 33:52Speaker 1: But yet people still insist, there are people that insist
- 33:56Speaker 1: Wayne Williams is in a set. Take a less into
- 34:00Speaker 1: our cut. Four WXIA prosecutors ultimately tied Williams to the
- 34:05Speaker 1: depths of twenty two victims through carpet fiber evidence and witnesses.
- 34:10Speaker 1: Not everyone believed his guilt. There were doubters. I don't
- 34:14Speaker 1: believe why william did it. I really don't believe that
- 34:18Speaker 1: he did it. In two thousand and five to cab
- 34:20Speaker 1: County Police Chief Lewis Graham reopened by cases in his jurisdiction,
- 34:25Speaker 1: but nothing to exonerate Williams came from it. To this day,
- 34:29Speaker 1: Joseph J. Drole, people insist Wayne Williams is innocent. Now,
- 34:35Speaker 1: there were thirty murders. We believe Williams was convicted on
- 34:42Speaker 1: a handful of those. There's a movement afoot to have
- 34:48Speaker 1: evidence reexamined from the other victims. But my question to
- 34:54Speaker 1: you now, Joseph, is what other evidence links Wayne william
- 35:00Speaker 1: to many of the boys murners. Well, there were a
- 35:06Speaker 1: variety of things as linked. I mean, you had eyewitnesses
- 35:09Speaker 1: of various kinds, and of course we presented ten other
- 35:13Speaker 1: murders at the trial, so there were twelve murders actually
- 35:18Speaker 1: proven at the trial. So you had that there were
- 35:23Speaker 1: victims who had fibers from different cars that Lame Williams drove.
- 35:29Speaker 1: And this is in addition to the constant fibers from
- 35:34Speaker 1: the home, which were probably in the car. There were
- 35:37Speaker 1: also the fibers from the car, and there were fibers
- 35:42Speaker 1: from thirteen different cars. Thirteen different victims should I say,
- 35:49Speaker 1: had fibers from the cars, and as Williams would change cars,
- 35:54Speaker 1: the fibers would change as that were found on the victims. Interesting,
- 35:58Speaker 1: So all of this was leading back to Wayne William's
- 36:01Speaker 1: home and his cars and a very very unique carpet
- 36:06Speaker 1: analysis and carpet fibers. Isn't it true, Joseph Droua, that
- 36:11Speaker 1: Wayne Williams injected himself in the media business TV radio
- 36:18Speaker 1: and he would somehow be the first stringer on the
- 36:23Speaker 1: scene of a crime, getting video before any other TV
- 36:26Speaker 1: crew would get there, right, and he had scanning equipment
- 36:30Speaker 1: in this car. A lot of people thought he was
- 36:32Speaker 1: a police officer, and the first car that we linked
- 36:36Speaker 1: to him was a Plymouth car that he had decked
- 36:39Speaker 1: out as a police car with a blue light, with
- 36:43Speaker 1: police radio, scanner, the whole works. So he knew what
- 36:48Speaker 1: was going on, and many people thought he was a
- 36:52Speaker 1: police officer, that he had a police jacket that was
- 36:56Speaker 1: discovered after the trial. And then he moved on to
- 36:59Speaker 1: being a TV person, a cameraman, a stringer, as he said,
- 37:06Speaker 1: and that put him at the scenes of things. Lou Archangel,
- 37:11Speaker 1: did any of the cops notice that this guy Wayne Williams,
- 37:14Speaker 1: who sometimes dressed up like a cop, kept showing up
- 37:17Speaker 1: the first one on every crime scene obviously because he
- 37:20Speaker 1: knew about the crime scene before anybody else. But did
- 37:23Speaker 1: anyone put that together? No, they didn't. He actually showed
- 37:26Speaker 1: up on one of my crime scenes. But he worked
- 37:28Speaker 1: for WSB. He would sell footage of fires and wrecks
- 37:32Speaker 1: and homicide crime scenes to WSPTV. But he was a
- 37:37Speaker 1: frequent He was frequently present at crime scenes and he
- 37:41Speaker 1: had a police scanner. Who is this guy, Joseph Droleet.
- 37:46Speaker 1: I know, he's an only child. Both parents were teachers,
- 37:50Speaker 1: and they doated on him. I mean they even set
- 37:53Speaker 1: up his own radio station in the home. That's correct,
- 37:58Speaker 1: And so he was very much a child who his
- 38:02Speaker 1: parents would do anything for. And he was in many
- 38:05Speaker 1: ways controlling of his parents, and a lot of evidence
- 38:09Speaker 1: of that came out during the case that he ordered
- 38:13Speaker 1: them around and what why why? What? How would he
- 38:16Speaker 1: order the parents around? There are testimony at trial even
- 38:20Speaker 1: yelled at them once and said, you know, you'd better
- 38:23Speaker 1: not come home and things like that because they wouldn't
- 38:26Speaker 1: rent another car for him. Uh. There were evidence of
- 38:30Speaker 1: him assaulting his father. So there are a lot of
- 38:35Speaker 1: things where they created, you know, this child who who
- 38:41Speaker 1: dominated them? Did they help cover up evidence? Do you think, Joseph, oh,
- 38:45Speaker 1: I certainly think they knew a great deal more than
- 38:48Speaker 1: they let and his mother, I think he would say
- 38:54Speaker 1: live for him at different times, including a trial. His
- 38:59Speaker 1: father had to know a great deal more than he
- 39:02Speaker 1: ever said. And they covered for Wayne completely, you know.
- 39:07Speaker 1: They they tried to back up his story about this
- 39:12Speaker 1: Cheryl Johnson, this phantom woman that was never found that
- 39:16Speaker 1: he planned he was out looking for when he was
- 39:20Speaker 1: when he was stopped on the bridge or near the bridge,
- 39:23Speaker 1: I should say, was there a circumstance where the father
- 39:27Speaker 1: was destroying evidence in the backyard. Yes, and we don't
- 39:32Speaker 1: know exactly what it was. They were photographs that were
- 39:35Speaker 1: burned in the barbecue pit, black and white photographs. All
- 39:40Speaker 1: that was left. It was the remnants of them. And
- 39:42Speaker 1: he couldn't tell actually what was in there. But they
- 39:44Speaker 1: hadn't done that apparently after Wayne Williams was stopped on
- 39:49Speaker 1: the bridge and he went home, and I think some
- 39:52Speaker 1: of the neighbors had had even said that there was
- 39:55Speaker 1: something something burning out in the barbecue pit in the backyard. Joseph,
- 39:59Speaker 1: what was a lot sitting in that courtroom with our
- 40:03Speaker 1: boss Lewis Layton and a team a brain Trust trying
- 40:07Speaker 1: this case. Well, it was. It was something that was
- 40:11Speaker 1: completely engrossing and I could think of nothing else from
- 40:15Speaker 1: the time I got involved in the case until the
- 40:21Speaker 1: flial was over. And of course it has continued to
- 40:24Speaker 1: be something that has come up repeatedly over the last
- 40:28Speaker 1: forty years as evidences looked into. It was reopened in
- 40:34Speaker 1: two thousand and five. It was DNA testing. There's been
- 40:38Speaker 1: movies about it, and more recently, former Mayor Kesel Lance
- 40:45Speaker 1: Bottoms had asked the police department in the DA's office
- 40:48Speaker 1: to look into it again. They've been doing that for
- 40:51Speaker 1: three years. Nothing has changed. There's nothing that would indicate
- 40:54Speaker 1: Wayne Williams is not guilty. What about some client that
- 40:57Speaker 1: the clan? I hadn't even say the word it's involved. Yeah,
- 41:02Speaker 1: that was another interesting development. Two years after the trial,
- 41:08Speaker 1: the director of the GBI came to the office and said,
- 41:12Speaker 1: there's something I got to tell you. During this investigation,
- 41:15Speaker 1: we also investigated the clan and we did a separate
- 41:18Speaker 1: investigation in March and April before Wayne Wims was ever
- 41:24Speaker 1: even a suspect, and we had them under surveillance and
- 41:29Speaker 1: we took samples of things and we watched them and
- 41:35Speaker 1: we couldn't find anything. There was no evidence the clan
- 41:38Speaker 1: was involved. You know what, Joseph, I guess you said,
- 41:41Speaker 1: thanks for telling me. Now anyway, right showed nothing that
- 41:46Speaker 1: became a big, big story, you know that, Oh the clan.
- 41:50Speaker 1: There was a clan investigation and it was secret. It
- 41:53Speaker 1: ended up it was begun and concluded with no evidence
- 41:58Speaker 1: of plan involvement before or Wayne Williams ever became a
- 42:02Speaker 1: suspector was stopped on them on or near the bridge. Okay,
- 42:05Speaker 1: I've got a question, Joseph, that I want to clear up.
- 42:09Speaker 1: Are there victims that were never officially proven connected to
- 42:15Speaker 1: Williams and do you support reanalyzing the evidence in those cases. Sure,
- 42:22Speaker 1: and that's what that's what a group has been doing.
- 42:25Speaker 1: You know, folks from the DA's office and the police
- 42:29Speaker 1: department are looking at it, and we may find out
- 42:31Speaker 1: Williams kill them too, or we may find out he didn't.
- 42:35Speaker 1: I'm all for the retesting of that evidence to find
- 42:39Speaker 1: out if we can now who murdered those children and
- 42:44Speaker 1: young men. When you look back on it, Joseph J. Drouet,
- 42:49Speaker 1: what's your takeaway? I mean, obviously it's haunted you to
- 42:53Speaker 1: the point you wrote a book, The Pursuit of the
- 42:56Speaker 1: Atlanta Child Kill Our Facts, Fibers and Forensics, right, you know,
- 42:59Speaker 1: it is something that has continued to continue to be
- 43:03Speaker 1: people who are doubters and so forth. Over the years.
- 43:08Speaker 1: I've seen so many productions that have been done that
- 43:12Speaker 1: for the purpose of entertainment. They don't talk about the evidence.
- 43:16Speaker 1: They talk about, you know, the mystery of the case,
- 43:18Speaker 1: what mystery he did it? Well, if you don't know
- 43:22Speaker 1: about the evidence, you don't know that. And I've had
- 43:25Speaker 1: so many people and I think even in the Daily
- 43:29Speaker 1: Mail article that was done two years ago, they interviewed
- 43:34Speaker 1: various people, a number of people who said I don't
- 43:37Speaker 1: think he did it, said I'm not aware of what
- 43:39Speaker 1: the evidence was. I've never seen all the evidence. And
- 43:43Speaker 1: I found this with many of the mothers, even that
- 43:45Speaker 1: they don't know what the evidence was. If they did,
- 43:50Speaker 1: they would probably think differently. What is it, lou Archangel
- 43:54Speaker 1: about Wayne Williams that everyone wants to think he's innocent.
- 43:57Speaker 1: He's not. Oh, Wayne Williams was as child molesting pedophile,
- 44:02Speaker 1: He abused his parents. I mean, he's a despicable human being.
- 44:06Speaker 1: And yet many people have rallied to his side because
- 44:10Speaker 1: they don't know the facts, but they're so clearly laid
- 44:13Speaker 1: out in Joe's book that after you've read basically how
- 44:17Speaker 1: a prosecutor works, how the criminal justice system works, you
- 44:22Speaker 1: will understand the complexities of the case. It'll all come together.
- 44:26Speaker 1: Wayne Williams is guilty. I think of killing twenty eight people.
- 44:30Speaker 1: That is exactly what I think, Lou, that is exactly
- 44:34Speaker 1: what I think. Joseph drew way, this has become a
- 44:38Speaker 1: mission of yours. Why well, after the trial, of course,
- 44:43Speaker 1: I handled the appeal and other folks involved in the
- 44:47Speaker 1: prosecution went elsewhere. So I ended up being the person
- 44:51Speaker 1: who has been defending the case, those in the Georgias
- 44:55Speaker 1: frame cort and the assisting in regard cathederal Corey's eight
- 45:00Speaker 1: habeas corpus. And every time something happens about the case,
- 45:05Speaker 1: I get calls about it. So I've been, uh, you know,
- 45:09Speaker 1: talking about this case and acting as sort of the
- 45:12Speaker 1: spokesman for what happened for forty years. Joe, this is arned.
- 45:20Speaker 1: One question, one question that I've wondered about over the
- 45:26Speaker 1: years is despite the imposing forensic evidence, do you believe
- 45:37Speaker 1: that there might have been a different outcome had Wayne
- 45:41Speaker 1: Williams not taken the stand. No, I don't think. I
- 45:47Speaker 1: don't think him taking the stand did anything, because the
- 45:52Speaker 1: evidence was all there when he took the stand. What
- 45:58Speaker 1: it did was dispelled the fact that he could deny
- 46:04Speaker 1: this with a straight pace, because he ended up being
- 46:09Speaker 1: unable to stick to the story that he had in
- 46:13Speaker 1: regard to, for example, what he was doing on the bridge,
- 46:16Speaker 1: and that's he sort of melted down on the witness stand. Oh,
- 46:20Speaker 1: you got to tell me about that, Joseph who put
- 46:23Speaker 1: their client on the stand. Well, you know, the defendant,
- 46:27Speaker 1: I think, wanted to testify. Yeah, what can you do
- 46:30Speaker 1: with that? When the defendant insists he's smarter than everybody
- 46:33Speaker 1: else and insists he wants to take the stand exactly,
- 46:36Speaker 1: you can't stop him under the law. You've got to
- 46:39Speaker 1: let him testify. What did he do, understand, Joseph, Well,
- 46:42Speaker 1: he did real real well for the first part when
- 46:45Speaker 1: he was being examined by al Bider, he did real
- 46:49Speaker 1: real well. Oh, dear Lord in Heaven. But he then
- 46:54Speaker 1: we brought him back the next day because we weren't finished.
- 46:57Speaker 1: And then what the FBI founders had suggested was, if
- 47:02Speaker 1: you keep confronting him with his eyes, he will probably
- 47:06Speaker 1: at some point blow up, and he did. And what
- 47:11Speaker 1: made him blow up was he could not answer the
- 47:14Speaker 1: question if he crossed the bridge going south towards his house,
- 47:20Speaker 1: and he said, a trial, I crossed the base because
- 47:23Speaker 1: I wanted to go home. Well, then he turns around
- 47:26Speaker 1: at the end of the bridge and goes north up
- 47:29Speaker 1: to Interstate two eighty five. Well then he tries to
- 47:34Speaker 1: explain that by saying, oh, it's quicker to go home
- 47:37Speaker 1: by two eighty five. And of course the question then is, well,
- 47:41Speaker 1: then why did you go down across the bridge? And
- 47:45Speaker 1: that one thing made him blow up, Yes, because he couldn't.
- 47:48Speaker 1: He had come up with different versions and painted himself
- 47:54Speaker 1: into a corner. Do you have any doubt, Joseph, that
- 47:57Speaker 1: why and Williams is guilty? No, I don't. I don't
- 48:00Speaker 1: based on the evidence. I think you know very clearly
- 48:03Speaker 1: he killed you know, eighteen or so of them, probably
- 48:07Speaker 1: twenty four others. You know, we just didn't have evidence.
- 48:11Speaker 1: Some of the earlier cases there was nothing but skeletal remains,
- 48:16Speaker 1: and evidence had been dispersed over a period of months
- 48:20Speaker 1: and even up to a year. He may have killed
- 48:23Speaker 1: some of those people you may have go there in
- 48:25Speaker 1: Glass who is still missing? Well, your book The Pursuit
- 48:29Speaker 1: of the Atlanta Child Killer Facts Fibers in Forensics on
- 48:32Speaker 1: Amazon Now is incredible. Gentlemen, Thank you Nancy Grace Crime
- 48:37Speaker 1: Stories signing off good bye friend,